ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <title> English boys clothes -- activities holidays and celebrations Whit Monday </title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="title" content=" English boys clothes -- activities holidays and celebrations Whit Monday " > <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/imagef/gif/faviconc.ico"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/imagef/gif/faviconc.ico"> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT=" Pentacost is not as well known or celebrated as Christmas and Easter, but it is one of the most important dates of the Christian calendar. Pentacost commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples following the death of Jesus. The Bible describes how the apostles, who gathered to celebrate the Jewish harvest festival (Shavuot), began to talk in foreign tongues. The assembled onlookers thought were drunk. Saint Peter explained that they had been inspired by the Holy Spirit and preached the first Christian sermon. They then converted and baptised 3,000 people. Thus this first Pentecost marked the transformation of the Jewish Jesus movement into the new Christian church -- essentially the birth of Christianity. Pentecost comes from the Greek word  Pentekostos , meaning '50 . The celebration takes place on the seventh Sunday after Easter, marking 50 days since the final Sabbath of Passover. Americans and others use the term  Pentecost which is also used in Britain. The traditionl term in Britain, however, is  Whitsun or  Whit Sunday . The origins of the term are unknown, but it seems to be related to the fact that as Pentecost was a day for baptisms and those to be be baptised were dressed in white. Another possibility is that 'Whit' is relaled to the Anglo-Saxon word  wit , meaning  understanding . This may have represented the disciples being filled with the wisdom of the Holy Spirit. 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The photograph is undated, but we would guess was taken in the 1900s. Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire coast. The photograph came from a album and was captioned, 'Whitsun treat". Notice all the great caps and hats. It suggests that wide-brimmed hats were very widely worn. </i> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> Pentacost is not as well known or celebrated as Christmas and Easter, but it is one of the most important dates of the Christian calendar. Pentacost commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples following the death of Jesus. The Bible describes how the apostles, who gathered to celebrate the Jewish harvest festival (Shavuot), began to talk in foreign tongues. The assembled onlookers thought were drunk. Saint Peter explained that they had been inspired by the Holy Spirit and preached the first Christian sermon. They then converted and baptised 3,000 people. Thus this first Pentecost marked the transformation of the Jewish Jesus movement into the new Christian church -- essentially the birth of Christianity. Pentecost comes from the Greek word  Pentekostos , meaning '50 . The celebration takes place on the seventh Sunday after Easter, marking 50 days since the final Sabbath of Passover. Americans and others use the term  Pentecost which is also used in Britain. The traditionl term in Britain, however, is  Whitsun or  Whit Sunday . The origins of the term are unknown, but it seems to be related to the fact that as Pentecost was a day for baptisms and those to be be baptised were dressed in white. Another possibility is that 'Whit' is relaled to the Anglo-Saxon word  wit , meaning  understanding . 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